There is a second image hiding inside every panoramic radiograph: faint, doubled, floating on the wrong side of the jaw. It is not a machine fault. It is geometry - and learning to read it is a quiet mark of the craft....
In a gallery, the placard beside the artwork decides how much of the work you actually take in. The radiograph has a placard too - the report - and a new comparative study shows that giving it a fixed structure, rather than free-flowing prose, measurably...
Between the bright cap of the enamel and the pale crest of the bone runs a soft dark band along the neck of many teeth. It can look, unmistakably, like decay eating into the root. Often it is nothing of the kind — it is...
The bitewing is the most familiar image in dentistry — so familiar it's easy to stop really looking at it. But a bitewing is a made object, shaped by angle and geometry, and it shows you a curated version of the truth. Learning what it...